Application Note: Limiting How Much Sample Is Used For Particle Size Analysis

Particle size analysis is only one of several required analytical tests for R&D formulators. New product formulations can often cost thousands of dollars per gram to manufacture. Considering that many tests destroy the sample material, formulators greatly benefit from minimizing the amount of sample required. This practice reduces material and labor costs and ideally produces the same accurate results of larger sample quantities. With the most popular particle sizing technique (laser diffraction) also being a destructive technique, there is motivation for instrument manufacturers to provide the best size results with the least sample and dollar costs.